Can I place Accordance 9.6 or 10 (and necessary files) on a flash drive and run it on another computer? This may be convenient for me in a certain situation when I must use another Mac other than my own. If it can work, how do I do this?

John - Consider one of these drives (I have two I use alternately for TimeMachine).

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go

Install OS 10 on it, then Accordance. You could boot up from that drive on another Mac and run everything from it, I think. This drive has the advantage of being bus-powered, compact, and nearly silent. It's not as compact as a flash drive, but you can boot from it, and I think that is what you're going to have to do to run Accordance.

I have never heard of anyone running an OS 10 application without actually installing it on the system. If I'm wrong about this, one of the true geeks will get it right for us.

You can set up Accordance to use an external hard drive for its contents, but its tricky. To detail it, there are 4 file locations to be aware of:

1) Accordance.app. This is installed to the Applications folder, but can easily reside anywhere, including your flash drive.
2) Library/Application Support/Accordance. This is the main content of Accordance, and the program looks for it in either /Library or ~/Library. This can be hosted on an external drive, but needs to be symbolically linked there. Its not hard to do symlinks if you know what to do, but it has to be set up on the system, so this might be a deal-killer for you.
3) ~/Documents/Accordance Files. This is where highlights, user notes, and other user content is usually saved and read. Its not as important to a working Accordance install, but will need to be symlinked as well if you need it.
4) ~/Library/Preferences/Accordance Preferences. These are all of your user defaults that will again need to be symlinked to be read by Accordance.

So, the only way I can think of setting it up for mobile usage is by a very intrepid user. A user that runs a little script that creates these symlinks to the folders on the flash drive, that then clears them up afterwards. Its not easy, but it is possible. Hope this helps!

Hey Joel, could we make these paths user definable? (perhaps the way iTunes/iPhoto do for the Libraries)

I have had all sorts of problems with symlinked directories and ended up reverting to plain directories. But to be able to select where your documents go, and (with perhaps an extra hurdle) to select where your library is would be sometimes quite useful - as evidenced above.

You could also create a bootable clone of your hard drive with Super Duper and boot from it to run OS X and Accordance on the go. Plus your entire Mac would "go with you", and it's easy to restore your files if your hard drive crashes. :-)

Long time ago I messed with symlinks to move stuff around for accordance and didn't work well is my memory. That's why I'm hesitant to make it easier for others to do it, unless it's confirmed as working well now.